More than 150 business leaders will get an overview of the region’s commercial property market next Wednesday when CBRE holds its annual update breakfast. Five speakers from the property agents will each look at a different part of the market, with retail included for the first time to reflect...
A prestigious self-contained office building in Bristol’s historic Queen Square has come onto the market. No 3, a 2,148 sq ft, Grade II*-listed building, contains many original period features and has office accommodation from the ground floor to the third. It also boasts category five cabling and on-site parking....
Single price retailer Poundworld will tomorrow open a store in Bradley Stoke, Bristol, creating 30 jobs. The outlet in Willow Brook Centre is the Yorkshire-based group’s 163rd since it started trading in 1997. The store promises a ‘value’ alternative to other high street retailers with more than 5,000 products...
It is now cheaper than ever for landlords to install electricity generating panels, despite recent changes to the Feed-in Tariff, according to research conducted by property agents DTZ. It shows a 50% fall in the price of solar photovoltaic installations (PV) in the past 12 to 15 months. Although...
More than four in 10 town centre redevelopments in England and Wales are delayed, halted or permanently stalled, new research shows. At the same time a third of councils have no schemes planned at all. These initial findings emerge from a survey of local authorities by property adviser GVA....
UNITE, the UK’s leading developer and manager of student accommodation, has signed a 15-year agreement with London’s King’s College for 97% of Moonraker Point – the Bristol-based group’s new 674-bedroom development on Southbank. It is UNITE’s first agreement with King’s and points to a growing trend for universities and...
A 9,874 sq ft office building in North Bristol has been bought by a private investor for just over £2m – the latest deal by an individual seeing commercial property as a safe haven for their money. The freehold investment deal on the building at Vantage Office Park was...
From Bristol 24-7 Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (GCCC) is to stay in Bristol after councillors last night backed plans to redevelop the County Ground, despite fierce opposition from local residents. The approval also means Bristol should be able to host one-day international cricket in the future, as the ageing...
Bristol’s 116-bedroom Mercure Brigstow Hotel has been put up for sale with a guide price of £9m. The four-star hotel, on Welsh Back next to Bristol Bridge, has four meeting rooms and a break-out area to cater for the corporate market as well as a bar and riverside restaurant....
Stockbroker HB Markets has moved its Bristol base to the 10th floor of recently-refurbished Tower House, the 14-storey city centre office block in Fairfax Street. HB Markets, previously in the Froomsgate office building in nearby Rupert Street, has taken a five-year lease on 1,400 sq ft – the fourth...
Construction firm Willmott Dixon has relocated its Bristol office to Pill on the city’s outskirts having outgrown its Queen Square premises. The 4,000 sq ft base on the Eden Office Park will house the firm’s 50-plus employees – a major increase on the four staff Willmott Dixon had when...
Commercial property opportunities in the West are to be showcased to national and international investors and developers in London this week. The event is being staged by property firm Jones Lang LaSalle, which has offices in Bristol and Bath, to attract more inward investment into the region. Senior directors...
Bedminster is get a share of £1.2m in Government funding under a pilot scheme recommended by retail guru Mary Portas to revitalise the UK’s high streets. The South Bristol suburb is one of 12 centres chosen as first-round winners. Among the ideas likely to be tried out in Bedminster...
